【推荐2】阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

A trader had traded in a far city for months and made a lot of money. He was riding his horse home. He rode on and on. The trader said to    1    (he), "I'11 lock the money in my safe (保险箱),    2    I won't feel easy."

At noon the trader stopped     3    (give) his horse water. "Sir, a nail (钉子) is loose (未固定牢的)in your horse' s shoe," somebody reminded him.

The trader said, "I am in a hurry. I'll fix it when I get home."

In the afternoon    4    person reminded him to fix it, but he refused and the nail remained loose.

The trader rode     5    (far). When he went into a forest, the horse fell down all of a sudden, and could not get up again.

The trader could only     6     the night in the forest.     7    (lucky) he discovered a house nearby and the old couple in the house agreed to let him stay.

The trader put his bag of money under his arm and soon fell into a deep sleep.

At midnight, a group of robbers (强盗) came to the house. The old couple and the robbers were    8    (partner). The robbers stole the bag of money.

The next morning, when the trader woke up, he found that his money     9    . (steal), and there was nobody in the house.

Now the trader     10    (lose) everything just because he would not stop to fix a small nail in his horse' s shoe.

【推荐3】根据短文内容及所给提示，补全文中单词或用所给单词的正确形式填空。

Do you like writing a story or a poem? A story usually has a lot of words and it takes too much time to write it.    1    (compare) with a story，a poem has fewer words. But each l    2     of a poem follows a format and we need to think about the rhyme and meaning. We must use   words very     3    (careful)．It usually takes a long time to come up with the right words to e    4    our thoughts or feelings. Although stories have more words，I still think it's easier     5    (write) a story.

【推荐1】Once a foreigner travelling in France stayed in Paris for a few days. On the very first day of his s    1     in the French capital, he sent a telegram(电报) to his wife with the n    2     and the address of the hotel in which he was staying. Then he decided to go out and see sights in the capital. He took a long w    3     along the streets of the city, visiting a few museums and by the end of the day he felt tired. He wanted to r    4     to the hotel to take a rest there, b    5     suddenly he realized he remembered neither the name nor the address of the hotel. He felt quite w    6     and slowly walked along the street, not knowing what to do. Suddenly he found h    7     in front of a post office. He quickly ran in and said in an excited voice.

“Give me a telegram form, please.”

“Here you are,” a man answered, giving him a form. It didn’t take l    8     to fill it in. A minute later he handed in the telegram and gave the man money.

His wife was greatly s    9     when two hours later she received a s    10     telegram from her husband, “Send me my address at once.”

【推荐2】Dear Lin Tao,

Hi! My name is Lucy. I'm your new pen friend. I'm thirteen years old, and I     1    （live）in California, the US. Most people here like doing sports.     2     (swim) is a very popular sport here     3    I also like it. I think swimming is     4     (exciting) than many other sports. I know most Chinese people like table tennis. Do you like       5     (play) this kind of sport, too? I also like playing football.     6    about you? I have     7    brother. His name is Ben. He is seventeen years old. He often plays tennis     8    my father on Saturday afternoon. Tennis is     9     (they) favourite sport. Do you have any brothers     10    sisters? What sports do you like? Please write to me soon.

Yours,

Lucy

【推荐3】Tom lived alone in a small house far away from the city center because his parents died of some strange illness two years ago. However, he was a l    1     boy, people in this village were all very kind to him and they often helped Tom with his life.

One night, it was very dry and windy. When everybody was s    2    , Tom suddenly heard some noise. It came out from the kitchen. So he got up and walked to the kitchen q    3    . There he found that the wood beside the stove（火炉）was burning. There was no w    4     in the house, so he could not put out the fire. However, he didn’t feel afraid. He u    5     a piece of cloth to cover his nose, ran out of his house and knocked on the doors of many houses to wake all the people up. The people all got up and left their houses at once and helped to fetch water from a river running through the village.

F    6    , the fire was put out by the villagers. No more houses were burnt and nobody was hurt in the fire. All the villagers were thankful to Tom and gave him a big hug.

【推荐2】阅读下面短文，在空白处填入一个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

If an old man suddenly falls down in front of you, will you help him? Most of us would choose to help him     1     we know it’s the right thing to do. But others might refuse     2     (do) so. In my opinion, we should not only think about     3     (we) but others as well.

I’ve had an experience like this before. I saw a woman walking with a baby in her arms while it     4     (rain) heavily. They were both wet because they don’t have     5     umbrella. I held out my umbrella for them     6     (quick) and I walked several miles with them till they got home. The woman thanked me a lot for     7     I did for her. Offering help to people     8     trouble can make them feel really warm. And perhaps one day we’ll become the ones who need help. So why don’t we just reach out a helpful hand whenever we can? The more we trust and help each other, the     9     (good) our world will be.

It’s time for us to show our     10     (kind) to others.

【推荐3】缺词填空
Elizabeth lived with her six children in a small house. One winter, there was a big flood and quite a f    1    houses were washed away, but Elizabeth’s house was high e    2    to escape it. Elizabeth took in one of the families which had lost everything. She s    3     her home until the family could build a new house. Elizabeth’s friends could not understand w    4    she wanted to give so much when she already had so many children to support.
“Well,” Elizabeth e    5     to her friends, “at the end of World War I, there was a poor woman in a town in Germany. Her husband had been killed in the war and she had a lot of children, just l    6     me now.” “The day before Christmas, this woman said to her children, ‘We won’t be able to have much for Christmas. I’m going to get just one p    7    for us all. Now I’ll go and get it.’ She came back w    8    a little girl who had no parents. ‘Here’s our present, ’she said to her own children." The children were more than excited to get such a present. They w    9     the little girl warmly, and she g    10    up as their sister. I was that Christmas present.”